skiffer

== English == === Etymology 1 === Presumably Swedish skiffer. ==== Noun ==== skiffer (uncountable) (geology, paleontology, possibly obsolete) Slate. 2014, Charles Francis Hall, Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition Made by Charles F. Hall, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 582: The occurrence of this common Utica slate species so far north is interesting, and, taken with its appearance in the Trinuclid Skiffer of Sweden (Linnarsson, loc. cit, p. 70, fig. 27), where it is also of the same small size as here, gives it a wide […] === Etymology 2 === skiff +‎ -er ==== Noun ==== skiffer (plural skiffers) One who pilots a skiff. == Swedish == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Schiefer. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌɧɪfɛr/ === Noun === skiffer c (geology) slate ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== skifferbrott (“slate quarry”) skiffergrå (“slate gray”) === References === “skiffer”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “skiffer”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “skiffer”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)